When I am working on music or design I often find it helpful to take a break to create something that is abstract or just unlike what I’m doing. I took a break the other night and listened to this demo that I did with Craig, Brooks and Jeremy from The Curtis Mayflower. It’s a rough sketch of a song that may never see the light of day. I had mixed it to sound like it is part of a city scene. I was inspired by some footage that had seen on the Prelinger Archives and created this video out of footage found there. Here’s a bizarre little video, made as a distraction. Have a...

It has been a long and busy winter, here are some designs from the past few months. I hope you enjoy! Glenn Yoder & the Wester States album cover The Curtis Mayflower show poster Tweed River Music Festival 2015 Logo Benefit Concert at Ralph’s Vincent’s Sessions Poster Tweed Acoustic Show Huck and Childhood acoustic concert poster Big Eyed Rabbit at Vincent’s poster Ohm, Sweet Ohm Poster Vincent’s Wednesdays Poster The Curtis Mayflower April Residency at Vincent’s The Marshall Pass single artwork The Curtis Mayflower, Sam James and Julie Rhodes Poster The Curtis Mayflower show poster Vincent’s Wednesday Sessions...

Here’s the album cover I designed for the great band “Glenn Yoder and the Wester States” called “Blood Red Moon”. You can check the band out and hear the album when it is released later this month at glennyoder.bandcamp.com Glenn Yoder & the Wester States album...

I started writing this song for The Marshall Pass after our dog Magritte “Maggie” died. She was a special girl and a beloved member of our family. I had recently picked up this Gretsch guitar the day after she passed and wanted the first song I wrote on it to be for her. I stuck a photo of her on it and began playing. When I played the demo for Craig I didn’t ask him to write a song about a dog. He wrote this beautiful lyric and melody and it just fit perfectly. His lyrics and performance are brilliant as always, thank you Craig. I started to produce the track and wanted to capture the bittersweet feeling of losing something that brought you joy. It’s neither a sad song or a happy song. I asked my dear friends Jeremy and Brooks from our group The Curtis Mayflower to add upright bass, piano and strings and they recorded their wonderful parts. My lovely and...

The Curtis Mayflower recently released our second single as part of a collection of singles that we will be putting out over the next year. This song was recorded in Pawtucket RI at Machines With Magnets with the great Dave Westner at the helm. I created this music video and used some of the footage to create the artwork for the single. We shot the footage backstage at Atwoods in Cambridge MA. Check out the song, check out the artwork and check out the music video. It’s all right here....

These photos were taken at my uncles place near Augusta, Maine. They are all 30 second exposures, taken during the early evening. Sidney Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Maine, Sept 2014 Here is a short recording made on the end of the deck that you see in these pictures. A simple capture of the sound of a warm Maine day in September. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your...

My band The Curtis Mayflower just released our new single “King of the Fools“. I designed the artwork using a photograph I took many years ago and producing this music video. Have a look, have a listen and...

The concept for the artwork for “Everything Beautiful Is Under Attack” began with the idea that we would produce an engraved nameplate to attach to a vintage photograph that is framed and hanging my friend Bill Connor’s organ shop in Worcester MA. Bill was gracious enough to let Jeremy and I visit his shop and spend a couple hours photographing his collection of vintage organ parts and various music equipment. I shot a couple hundred photos that day and felt confident that I had gotten the album cover shot but I wasn’t sure exactly which photo it would be. Once I was able to go through the photos it was obvious that the photo that we used on the cover what the right one. I made some minor adjustments, placed the credits on the back cover and the artwork for the vinyl was done in just a few minutes. The back cover was a photograph of an old poster for Hammond...

11 songs recorded live in a room, one take each, capturing a moment of sincerity in great Rock and Roll writing. http://kck.st/15XibwH The Curtis Mayflower has been busy the last 9 months putting the finishing touches on its debut album. We need your help to bring it out into the world for all to hear. Here is a little back story about the album, where we need to go, and how you can help. In February The Curtis Mayflower (Pete Aleksi – guitar, Duncan Arsenault – drums, Jeremy Moses Curtis – bass, Brooks Milgate – keys, Craig Rawding – vocals) traveled to Lamoine, Maine with engineer Dave Westner and set up shop in an old farmhouse. With 12 channels of analog gear and some nice mics, 11 songs were recorded live in a room. One take each. The result is a batch of songs that capture a moment of sincerity in great Rock and Roll songwriting. As explained in the...

The Curtis Mayflower is a new project that I am working on. We have finished our first album and it is out being mastered as I type. We also recently recorded over 4 hours of improvisational music for the soundtrack to the film American Mongrel. We are performing a show on July 12 in Worcester at a fantastic club called Beatnik’s. Here is a poster I designed for the show....